October 10, 2011

So today we finally got transfer calls after agonizing over the thought of them for days!!! Haha, so lately had the feeling I was leaving the Woodside ward :(... But that's okay! And guess what I get to do now!?! I get to shotgun Folsom 1st ward! Wowsers! I get to shotgun an area... the elders haven't been having much luck lately. But the cool part of it, besides that I get to shotgun...with who knows who - they haven't told me who my companion is going to be - is that I will still be in the Citrus Heights stake/zone! So really I'm not going too far. Yep! That's the excitement of the day. Sister Withers is going to train. And our wonderful temple square sister is going to Dry creek in Antelope. We're going to miss her. She's way awesome! It's been fun the last week being in a 3some with Sister Withers and Sister Alejandro. We've had a good week of fun all together. We even tracked in the light rain. And a mail man yelled at us, "You're crazy!" Haha, that was kind of funny. The rain really wasn't that bad. Just a light rain. And it's raining today! Something I never knew about California: during the winter it rains a lot. Kind of cool! Good thing I have a rain jacket :D So last week we had an investigator drop us. I figured it would happen. I didn't even think we should pick him up as investigator. But such is life. We almost attended a baptism. A girl we started teaching and then handed over to the singles ward. But the morning of her baptism... at the baptism before it started, she decided that she would not get baptized that day. It was a really hard decision for her. She wants to get baptized, but....her family is the problem. They are against it. And they didn't know that she was planning on getting baptized that day! Yeah... but soon she'll get baptized. And I was supposed to give a talk at her baptism. We'll see what happens now. So what else.... we did a lot of weeding this week! First time on my mission! Someone told me I was very efficient at it. I told them it was because my dad taught me how to weed. You should be proud. They even joked that I was never going to stop. That lady REALLY needed it too! There was a HUGE difference after we were done. Everything was over grown before, but she's had a hard keeping up with that since she owns horse stables and gives riding lessons and is the only one running the program with her daughters help. She is a less active we happened to visit. We also helped a non-member (married to a less active) weed his flower beds. It was good to be able to help him and get to know him better. And then they feed us dinner. :D It was great. Also we had some intense lessons with investigators. Talked about a lot of important things. Yeah. One lesson we covered the atonement, priesthood, baptism, and tithing. That was a lot. And we picked up a new investigator! Yep. Life is good. Going to miss my companions, but Sister Withers won't be far. Haha. Yep. Anyways, I love you all so much!!!! Hope all is well. And that's cool that Trevor was voted "Most likely to change the world." I agree. He has a lot of inspiring ideas. Congratulations kiddo!!! I love you!!! Thanks for the letters last week!!! I got 5 in one day!!! (Sometimes the owner’s don’t' pick up the mail...so I got all 5 letters in one day, it was exciting.) Love you all!!!! :D
With lots of love,
Your missionary,
Sister Kristi Walston